I have a clipping of then-POTUS Reagan driving a GM concept that looks like a red banana, it's captioned as a "Saturn concept", but it's wearing a Bowtie. It bears resmblence to & came after the Chevy Aero 2000, but has an enormous rear overhang:

and I seem to remember this 'red banana' being called the "Citation IV" at one point. Could not find an online pic. This pic is from Time, 06-17-85.

Have another clipping, undated, that says 'Saturn was announced Thursday', and by the back side- it points to Nov (reports of Oct car sales), I assume this is '85 again.

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Saturn was introduced as the next big GM division in the winter of 1985 as a Roger Smith project. I have some of the original clippings from magazines back then announcing the division with some early pictures of the proto-types.

Experimental GM cars always fascinate me, especially old ones like this. It's cool to see how far ahead the engineers are thinking, and how many ideas flash by in a concept car, only to show up maybe decades later in production.

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Experimental GM cars always fascinate me, especially old ones like this. It's cool to see how far ahead the engineers are thinking, and how many ideas flash by in a concept car, only to show up maybe decades later in production.

Im completely facinated by GM concept cars.

The period from the 80's to the 90's was just amazing. There were even many cars made that were never shown at any autoshows (Ill have to do a thread maybe). Im learning as much as I can.

I think there was even a concept that bridged the gap between the Aero 2000 and Citation IV.

Roger Smith and F. James McDonald are pictured with the 1985 Saturn four-door sedan concept. This was the first Saturn demonstration prototype vehicle. It was completed for evaluation and shown to the media on September 15, 1984.